The goal of the 10-month project ‘Social Entrepreneurship: Take Step Forward’is to support creating supportive social entrepreneurship environment by developing capacities especially of youth organizations and raising awareness among different stakeholders on the importance of social entrepreneurship as emerging sector in the Western Balkan. The project includes 9 partners representing following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Spain, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania and Italy.The project consists from two mobility activities (training course and seminar) that will be implemented in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina and capacity building activities that will be implemented in all partner countries. Project goes in line with following project objectives: Objectives: 1. To raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizations in the field of social entrepreneurship and to develop competencies of their staff to respond on the needs and interests of their target groups in the social entrepreneurship field;2. To develop entrepreneurial competencies of young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, involved in the activities of partners’ organizations and to empower them to become active in social entrepreneurship field;3. To support creating cross-sectorial based partnerships in partners’ countries and to raise awareness of the representatives of various sectors on the importance of cooperation between youth, educational and labour sectors in the process of creating supportive entrepreneurial environment.

Main aim of 24 - months project ‘Social Entrepreneurship as Response on Youth Unemployment’ is to decrease youth unemployment by developing entrepreneurial mind-set and competencies of young people, including youth with fewer opportunities, and supporting cross-sectorial cooperation. The project will connect partners and participants representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Poland and Turkey.It will include international mobility and local capacity building activities with aim to raise quality of the activities delivered by participating organizations aiming to fight youth unemployment through social entrepreneurship; to support sharing good practices between Programme and Partner countries on social entrepreneurship and fighting youth unemployment; to strengthen the network between the partners, to raise their knowledge on Erasmus + Programme and to support development of new ideas for local and international projects; to develop individual competencies of the participants of mobility activities needed to prepare, deliver and evaluate activities developing competencies of young people and their entrepreneurial mind-set; to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship between the participants of capacity building activities implemented by the partners in their communities, to increase knowledge of the participants of both types of activities on innovative elements such as design thinking, tools ‘young person company’ and ‘computer simulations’ and to develop boarding game on social entrepreneurship with aim to raise interest of young people on the concept. The activities will be based on non-formal education and provide the participants opportunity to take active part and contribute by own experiences. Besides directly involved partners and participants from the project will benefit local communities of partner’s organizations and individuals and organizations interested to raise knowledge on social entrepreneurship as tool to address youth unemployment because key project products will include videos and booklet of good practices.

"Bike-stop for social inclusion: ""from guest to host"" aims to be a social innovation project in favour of the inclusion of those already in a position of high risk of marginalization.The project is presented by a partnership of 9 organizations from 7 different countries (Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Serbia, Germany and the United Kingdom) and aims to develop a shared innovative model of social inclusion, in contexts where it becomes increasingly difficult to identify employment opportunities.The intent of the organizations is to experiment with an active reception model that provides daily training on the themes of cycle tourism and immersion in everyday life that offers constant opportunities for non-formal and informal learning.The first result that we hope to achieve is to offer to adults in difficulty a different reception perspective, whose impact is immediately offered thanks to the discrepancy between the expectation of being in a community and the experience of living in a "" albergabici "", moving from a “passive user"" logic to an ""active reception"" logic.This discrepancy is in regards to both the structural expectation (distribution of spaces, furnishings, presence of a front-office with tourist brochures, etc.), and the emotional area, being in contact with people with different experiences. The project proposes two training courses:- the first, a short-course, aimed at educators / operators motivated to implement this active reception model (of 12 professional staff);-the second course is aimed at 14 students in a disadvantaged area (accepted in residential care communities) aimed at acquiring the skills necessary for the management of the reception of cyclists, experimenting with the activities. The project involves the construction of 2 Outputs:- a manual / guideline on how to implement the proposed reception model, aimed at organizations that manage residential communties;- an IT product aimed at promoting the active reception model through the promotion of the available hosts with attached cycle repair shops. Each action of the project tends to a single direction: to change the model of residential community that is prevalent to date, that is to move from a model of care reception to a model that that gives benefits back to the user, of dignity and empowerment of their skills.The innovative model of social inclusion ""from guest to host"" will produce a change of perspective in adults, from passive subjects inserted in a residential community to subjects who manage an Albergabici and a cycle repair shop. It follows that the project actions will produce an overall impact in terms of the concrete development, transfer and implementation of an innovative practice, which reverses the logic of traditional reception, transforming it into a place of informal and multicultural learning. This change will inevitably generate the informal acquisition of relational skills, the continuous cultural and linguistic exchange with the guest cyclists, the concrete participation in the social life outside the community life, and a facilitated access to digital technologies.The impacts of the project will be recorded both on staff, who will be involved in a generative welfare service, and on adults in difficulty, who will experience the growth of skills and abilities with a culturally transnational perspective, as well as on the organizations involved in the project in various capacities. With respect to stakeholders, it will be possible to find:- the advancement of generative reception models, in view of constant networking with local associations- promotion and public awareness of social issues- transmission of the values of active citizenship through transnational experiences- reduction of public spending by boosting the economic autonomy of institutionalized subjects."